They should strand people at IG. It would be a mercy.
As someone who waited an hour for that bus, trudged through the pouring rain and 4 inch deep water to the backstage area to get to it, was packed on like a sardine with bus drivers yelling “we have more people” and guests rightfully screaming back at them “there is no more room!” I cannot in good conscience recommend anyone take the bus option from IG Skyliner. Worst decision I made on a Disney trip in a couple years. If you don’t wanna walk to the front of the park for the Skyliner bus, walk to BC & take a rideshare or bus to another park and bus to your hotel.
You’d think Disney would have the bus IG situation settled by now with drivers ready to roll if there was X percentage chance of bad weather- but every report we get you’d think the transportation department was shocked they needed to provide transport
Ahhh yes, rivers of IG, use to walk those things five times a week in the summer.
I’m not sure how things are handled in the last few years, the IG bus pick up was in its early stages. The problem with that little corner of the world, there just isn’t enough room, it’s very small. You also have to remember, when it rains guest flood out of parks for some reason. You can’t send three extra buses to each and every location every time it gets cloudy. You would have to have a couple hundred buses and drivers on standby fifteen hours per day. Four parks and a major shopping and entertainment area with buses to every resort on property. The buses would sit in traffic jams all day. When they get called out of standby, they have safety measures they have to complete before jumping in behind the wheel and very strict driving safety guidelines. It takes time for them to get to any location. That location, its tight back there. That’s about all I can tell you. They know how many people need to be moved from one location to another and buses get sent to those locations.
Example, I’m at IG, I think they should have five buses there as soon as it rains to take me where I want to go. I’m at MK All star bus stop which is overflowing, they should have six buses as soon as it starts raining to get me out of here and so on.
The 70k CMs use the same roads to get to work as do the guest in their loaner Mustangs and Suburbans as do the buses, all the ride shares and the emergency response people.
Weather, very unpredictable. Things can pop up with no warning ( yesterday was a fine example) and disappear in minute’s, not a drop. Things can also pop up with no warning and gives you four inches in twenty minutes. I’m from the northeast, you can watch the rain systems roll out of the Rockies, come across the country, through Ohio and into Pa for a week before it gets to you, here, your in a tropical climate, it don’t work that way here.
You are better off when it starts raining, get your rain gear out, I know, it hot, welcome to summer in Florida, stay in the park and you will ride more attractions in an hour than you did in two days. There is no easy escape during a park dump of any kind.
